Pew Research highlights use of social media for news

Pew found that just over a quarter (27%) of adults say they regularly or sometimes get news or news headlines through Facebook, Twitter or other social networking sites. This rises to 38% for younger adults.

These figures applies to all the 1,501 people surveyed. Digging deeper into the stats, only 44% said they were regular users of social networking sites.

As a result, the sample size of social media users is 660 people. It stands to reason that the people who said they get news on social networks would just be drawn from the 660 social media users.

In this case, the percentage of social media users who get their news through Facebook or Twitter rises to 61%.

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Alfred Hermida is an award-winning British online news pioneer, digital media scholar & journalism educator. An UBC associate professor since 2006, he was previously with BBC News for 16 years, working in television radio and online.